Local Washington State NAACP Leader Outed By Parents As White

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But seriously, how black is not black enough any more? Where do you draw the line? As soon as you make race a membership criterion, it inevitably leads down a very murky unpleasant road. People of Color are not a separate kind of people that you can distinguish in a meaningful way from the rest. It's something that is to be identified with culture as much as anything and cannot possibly be formalized without turning into some kind of dystopian scenario where people have to get genetically tested or show proof of ancestry.

There are 6 more pages but I had to stop right here and comment with people talking about how offended they are and what not.

If this were about her being fired because she is white, then I could understand being offended. I would be too because that's not right. It's not about whether she is Black enough. That is so far from the issue that it borders on being a straw man. From its inception, the NAACP has had many White people in leadership positions and they did not have to pass for black to get there.The issue here is that this woman misrepresented herself when it wasn't even necessary. Why did they ask about race? Why does any job application ask about race. Should we implement a Don't Ask don't Tell policy about race?

If the lie was not necessary for the position, then what was it for? It's hard to plead ingenuous motives in the wake of a deception.